Velocipede-brake.



No. 658;654. Patented Sept. 25, I900. H. A. LAMPLUGH. VELUCIPEDE BRAKE.

(Application filed Dec. 18, 1899.)

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(No Model.)

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No. 658,654. Patented Sept. 25, I900.

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VELOGIPEDE BRAKE.

(Application filed Dec. 18, 1899.\ No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 3'.

NHE TATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY ARTHUR LAMPLUGH, OF BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.

VELOClPEDE-BRAKE.

SI E GI F ICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 658,654, dated September 25, 1900.

Application filed December 18, 1899. Serial No. 740,767. (No model.)

To a whom, it Netty concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY ARTHUR LAMP- LUGH, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Mitre Works, Bishop street, Birmingham, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Brakes for Velocipedes and other Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to brakes of the kind in which a band or cord or hands or cords are made to occupy a trough on one or both edges of the Wheel-rim, the said cord or cords being tightened or slackened by the brake-lever of the velocipede or the like or in the way hereinafter described; and my invention has for its object to simplify the construction and arrangement of the parts of such brakes, so as to facilitate their application to velocipedes and wheel-vehicles generally.

In order that my invention may be the better understood, 1 remark that the rims of wheels to which brakes of the kind referred to are applied have made in one piece therewith the additional or supplementary rim or trough or rims or troughs for the brake cord or cords and that brakes of the kind referred to are applicable only to velocipedes, one or both of the Wheels of which have the additional or supplementary rim or trough described.

My invention has for its principal object to render brakes of the kind described applicable generally, and for this purpose I make the additional or supplemtary rim or trough separate from the wheel-rim and preferably open jointed, the said open-jointed brake-rim having on one side or edge a flange of a size and shape proper to overhang and engage one edge of the wheel-rim. The accidental detachment of the brake rim or trough when engaged with the wheel-rim is prevented bya screw-pin passing through lugs on the two ends of the brake-rim, drawing the flange of the said brake-rim tightly on the edge of the wheelrim, or by the pressure of the inflated tire on the said flange of the brake-rim or by the action of the screw described, combined with that of the pressure of the inflated tire.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents in side elevation the front part of a safety-bicycle having my improved brake applied to the front or steering Wheel, the said brake being operated by a hand-lever situated under one of the handles of the bicycle. Figs. 2 and 3 represent portions of Fig. 1 drawn to a larger scale. Fig. 4 represents in side. elevation a safetybicycle to the back or driven wheel of which my improved brake is applied, the said brake being operated by a hand-lever. Fig. 5 represents a portion of the back wheel of a bicycle and parts adjacent thereto, in which the brake is put in operation by back-pedaling. Fig. 6 represents in side elevation, and Fig. 7 in edge view, the supplementary or brake rim detached; and

' Figs. 8 and 9 are sectional views at right angles to one another of a portion of the said brake-rim. Fig. 10 is a sectional view of the combined wheel and brake rims and inflated pneumatic tire. Figs. 8, 9, and 10 are drawn to a larger scale than Figs. 1, 4, 5, 6, and 7. The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of the drawings.

Referring to Figs. 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, a is the wheel-rim proper, and b the openjointed supplementary or brake rim, the flanged edge b of which overhangs one edge of the wheel-rim, as will be best understood by reference to Fig. 10. The brake-rim b is tightened on the wheel-rim proper, a, by drawing together the lugs b b on the ends of the brake-rim b by the screw-pin c. The inflated tire (1 assists in keeping the brake-rim b in place.

In applying the brake-cord Z, which is preferably a vulcanized or waterproofed cord, to the rim 1) one end of the said cord is fixed to one of the branches of the steering-fork ate, and after passing around the brake rim passes through an eye f and into the tubular brake-rod g, in which it is fixed by a screw or other clip h. The tubular brake-rod g is jointed at or near the middle of a brake-lever t', connected to the handle-bar It by means of a clip m. By operating the hand-lever t the brake-rod g is lifted and the cord '1 tightened in the brake-rim b to any extent desired by the rider, and on the release of the lever the parts resume their normal or non-acting posi- [10118.

In applying myimproved brake to the back wheel, as represented in Fig. 4, I employ a lever t', operating in a different manner to ICO that shown in Fig. 1; but the tubular brakerod g in said Fig. 4: diifers in'no essential respect from that first described. The cord l passes over guiding-pulleys n n and through an eye f and terminates at e on one of the branches of the chain stay fork of the bicycle.

In applying my improved brake to the back wheel of a free-wheel bicycle I arrange the parts as represented in Fig. 5that is to say, the tubular brake-rod g is attached to an arm which has a slight angular motion in the direction of the arrow on the back-pedaling of the bicycle, the return of the arm being effected by aspring g on relieving the back pressure on the pedals. A guiding-roller n is employed for the cord Z, which after passing around the rim 1) is fixed at e.

Having now described my inx ention, what In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 30 my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY ARTHUR LAMPLUGH. Witnessesz GEORGE SHAW, ARTHUR J. POWEL 

